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Claire
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Probably thinking about Buster Keaton
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I tried so hard not to be a book snob about the YA-ness of it all because nobody loves a book snob, but I nearly threw it across the train carriage when she used a phrase from a 1970s TV show, lol. Agreed that the dragons were the fun part!
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Day 3 of sick in bed trying to watch movies through the brain fog. Watching THE LONG GOODBYE for Elliott Gould-related reasons.
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Bacall.
Lauren Bacall on the telephone, looking smoking hot and smoking
April 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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So she made a Martinez
A Martinez cocktail with a lemon twist
April 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Cold mornings, warm days
Photo from the end of Seaford pier, early morning autumn sun
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Bergman
Beautiful portrait of Ingrid Bergman, from the early 1940s by the look of things
March 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Sixteen years since Black Saturday. Working on the Royal Commission into those bushfires changed the course of my life. Thinking today about all those affected by the devastation caused, and all those who provided assistance.
Photograph taken by Alex Coppel during the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, showing a fire truck driving away from a giant wall of smoke and flames
February 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Gelato pier walk at dusk
People at the end of Seaford pier at dusk
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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more beautifully animated than a dreamworks animation movie has any right to be tbh
January 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Lazy Monday recovering from last night’s excesses - we are watching The Wild Robot
Selfie of the author with her small child, who is staring at tv screen
January 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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ASTEROID CITY (dir. Wes Anderson, 2023)
A gentleman in a Canadian tuxedo stands before a row of vending machines marked Beer, Stockings, Cocktail, Coffee, Ammunition, Candy, Cigarettes, Snacks and Real Estate
January 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Ah, fuck. This one hurts. The world feels like a poorer place without his creativity in it, really glad I watched so many of his works over the last six months and connected with so many of them.
RIP to the cinematic king of the subconscious 💔
Stills of David Lynch stating “One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.”
January 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Today is a day for Calippos and air con
Curly haired 4 year old boy wearing a rad orange terry towelling onesie with pink watermelons on it holds a Calippo icy pole and grins, dizzy after spinning round and around
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (dir. Sofia Coppola, 1999)
Still from The Virgin Suicides in which Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon eats a popsicle, full of sun-dappled teenaged ennui.
December 22, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (dir. Charles Laughton, 1955)
Still from The Night of the Hunter in which Lillian Gish’s character, in the foreground, sits on her porch holding a shotgun while Robert Mitchum’s serial killer character sits menacingly by her picket fence. Stanley Cortez’s cinematography is INCREDIBLE.
December 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head
December 12, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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THE FALL (dir. Tarsem, 2006)
Still from The Fall in which characters Otta Benga and Charles Darwin look out over the blue city (filmed in Jodhpur)
December 8, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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THE TERMINATOR (dir. James Cameron, 1984)
Still from The Terminator in which the Terminator shoots up a nightclub called Tech Noir
December 4, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER (dir. David Lean. 1945)
Still from Brief Encounter in which our repressed protagonists played by Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson steal a romantic, melancholic moment to kiss in the train station’s underpass. The passion of a love affair they both know is doomed.
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (dir. Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
Still from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in which Gary Oldman as “breathtakingly ordinary” George Smiley wears a three piece suit and sits in a sound-proofed conference room at the Circus, the headquarters of MI6.
November 29, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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WITNESS (dir. Peter Weir, 1985)
Still from Witness in which Harrison Ford as John Book bids a tender farewell to Amish boy Samuel.
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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INSIDE MAN (dir. Spike Lee, 2006)
Still from Inside Man in which Denzel looking dapper af in a cream linen suit and bow tie matches wits with Jodie Foster’s amoral fixer character. Is there anything more fun than Spike making a heist caper?
November 26, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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DON’T LOOK NOW (dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Still from Don’t Look Now in which a heart-stoppingly beautiful Julie Christie and most-70s-ever Donald Sutherland get dressed in their Venetian hotel room after sexually reconnecting for the first time following their young daughter’s death
November 25, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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My other favourite cinematic Ripley: ALIEN (dir. Ridley Scott, 1979)
Still from Alien in which Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley sits alone in the USCSS Nostromo, thinking and worrying.
November 24, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Still from The Talented Mr Ripley in which Dickie Greenleaf wears a yellow mesh-knit shirt and makes espresso in his Mongibello villa. I seldom go for blonds, but has there ever been a more beautiful man than Jude Law in this film?
November 24, 2024 at 4:45 AM